I have a partition .dd file with the bash_history. I am able to cat it and look at the bash history and I know that the HISTTIMEFORMAT="%d/%m/%y %T " is typically used for the timestamp of the current ...

When I select and copy some text from Skype chat, it does not include timestamp and name if I take only one message from one user. If it is two or more messages, timestamps and names are there.
For ...

When I log messages to syslog in OS X (10.10.1), it truncates the timestamp to the second. If I log to a file, for example, I am able to capture milliseconds. Milliseconds matter when logs are coming ...

I need to use (GNU) tar to move a directory tree from one Linux machine to another, and I want symbolic links to remain symbolic links.
I did it with just the usual command line options (cf and xf). ...

Following the answers from How can I change the timestamp on a file?, I tried setting the timestamp of a file by typing
$(Get-Item zz).lastwritetime=$(Get-Date)
in PowerShell and by typing touch zz ...

I was doing a bit of testing of a javascript app that had me changing my timezone all over the place. While that was happening, I got a couple of Skype messages that got assigned bad timestamps. Now ...

I made a backup of 230GB of files by uploading them on a cloud storage via FTP.
Now if i download the files from there, they show the date when the file is downloaded. (d'uh)
I made a backup of the ...

In Outlook, the timestamp of the "received" column in Inbox View is rounded to the minute. This is annoying, since we need to know the second. And the correct minute number. In the options, one can ...

I have a kvm virtual machine with Windows 8.1 with main purpose for Word/Excel and a bit of PowerPoint. Sometimes I save the virtual machine state and when turning it on again, the date and time of it ...

When sending emails using the "Delay Delivery" option in Outlook 2010, I find that, although the recipient sees the correct time associated with the email when it arrives in their inbox, it shows up ...

I want to set the created date on some old scanned pictures to a date in 1970. If I do that using a third party tool, Windows explorer displays the date as blank. I thought NTFS could go back to the ...

I would like to record the daily programme of an IceCast radio channel (maybe a 24 hour stream), and then select my favourite programmes by embedded timestamps - if possible - according to the daily ...

So I was wondering how the touch command really worked. I found touch -t which seems to modify the timestamp based on a string of numbers, but how is this string formatted? Can this be used to falsify ...

I'm currently using ls -t | head -1 to get the name of the newest file. But it takes a long time because my directory has a million files. I guess a chunk of time is lost unnecessarily in ls -t when ...

I'm trying to merge 15 pcap files using wireshark. The merging is successful.
I'm using the appending function so that the second file is just added to the bottom of the first file. But when this is ...

Disabling Accessed time-stamp of files/folders in Windows is pretty easy. However, when you save a file, Windows updates its Modified time-stamp, and along with that the Accessed time-stamp also gets ...

I am using ffmpeg to encode raw pixels data (bgr32) into a video file.
Pixels data is being sent from java application to ffmpeg stdin pipe.
I am looking for a way to add a timestamp overlay to each ...

I have a folder full of images. I'm trying to add a timestamp onto the image itself, for every image, based on the date that the file was created. Is this possible? I've read this post here, but it ...

Hi I'm making an event that runs every minute and extracts certain columns on a table and creates an output-file in excel format
Since I cannot overwrite the file, i wanted to append a time-stamp on ...

I have two file trees. The first one consist of original files. The second one is a duplicate but lacking correct file timestamps, they are all set to the last duplication date.
Is there a clean and ...

I am doing research on Ext4 and I believe I understand the fundamentals of Ext4.
Ext4 stores timestamps. In my assignment, I have proposed to analyse the timestamp of Ext4 MANUALLY instead of typing ...

Suppose I have 10 files generated by the system every day under D:\Temp. The names are RANDOMLY generated.
Assume I need to rename the oldest one to be 'aaa', the second oldest one to be 'bbb', then ...

I want to measure the time of start for a program but for this I want to get the timestamp in Windows, but I need to get the time-stamp in mili-seconds since the Unix epoch format. (The Unix epoch is ...

I am trying to get images to display in a specific order on as many smartphones as possible without them requiring specific software, and the easiest way to do this is to change the creation times of ...

Me and my little brother just got a speeding fine on a trip we both take, but we're not sure who was driving. I know my little brother's been watching a particular series of videos on his Macbook Pro ...